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A snippet from a CNS story about ecumenism, centered on observations by Bishop Brian Farrell of the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: He said that when Pope Benedict visited Turkey last fall he had dinner with members of the country’s small Catholic community at the Vatican nunciature. During the dinner someone…

Pope to visit: Benedict XVI plans to visit the Casal del Marmo detention center for minors in Rome. News of the upcoming March 18 visit was announced today by Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office. It will be Benedict XVI’s first visit to a prison since his papal election. Thus he…

A few weeks ago, Pope Benedict gave his brother Fr. Georg Ratzinger, a Christmas gift – a private concert: (scroll down to last post) A special gift indeed: a most private concert last January 4 presented by the Pope to brother Georg in the Sistine Chapel, no less, as a Christmas gift, if somewhat belated,…

I trust that those of you who have been following the conversation in First Things have been, well..following it. But just in case, here’s the latest from Fr. Oakes on heresy: What I’m searching for is a term for two different kinds of heresies: one in which no agreement is possible between the orthodox position…
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